Practical: hosting your experiment online with Heroku
Theoretical: Ethics
01/07/21
Practical: hosting your experiment online with Heroku
Theoretical: Ethics
Key ingredients:
You don’t need to follow along, but it will be useful for you to do so
During signup it asks about language: choose node.js
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli
To log in:
heroku login
Procfile which tells Heroku how to run our app
web and we want to tell it this app is a node.js app, so:web: node app.jsheroku create
git push <where> <which branch>git push heroku mainconfig varsSpeed?
Example questions:
Today: Look at the claim that emotions play a role
We’re going to delve into this just enough to discuss the experimental design
Norms prohibiting “core-disgusting” actions (i.e., actions that are likely to elicit core disgust) will enjoy greater cultural fitness than norms prohibiting actions that are unlikely to elicit core disgust (or other emotions).
| Moral | Conventional |
|---|---|
| Objective | Arbitrary |
| General | Local |
| Victim harmed | No harm |
| Violation serious | Not so serious |
Three hundred years ago, whipping was a common practice in most navies and on cargo ships. There were no laws against it, and almost everyone thought that whipping was an appropriate way to discipline sailors who disobeyed orders or were drunk on duty.
Mr. Williams was an officer on a cargo ship 300 years ago. One night, while at sea, he found a sailor drunk at a time when the sailor should have been on watch. After the sailor sobered up, Williams punished the sailor by giving him 5 lashes with a whip.
Mr. Adams is an officer on a large modern American cargo ship in 2004. One night, while at sea, he finds a sailor drunk at a time when the sailor should have been monitoring the radar screen. After the sailor sobers up, Adams punishes the sailor by giving him 5 lashes with a whip.
harm: slavery (ancient world vs USA)
authority: teacher and spanking (different states → different laws)
negative affect: cannibalism (remote part of world vs California)
Varying: harm; authority; affect
→ harm doesn’t yield a firm moral/conventional distinction
→ Disgust doesn’t yield a firm moral/conventional distinction
→ Neither does harm
→ This moral/conventional distinction based on cluster of responses is in trouble
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